A splashy new production of the play may give a sense of where Shakespeare productions are heading.
Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/when-marvel-meets-much-ado-about-nothing
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 17:48:56 +0000
We participate in political memes to express our anxiety that whatever is coming next might be even more chaotic than what is already happening.
Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/resisting-trump-20-with-brain-rot-memes
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000
Our art reflects a commitment to the pleasant, a subtlety and delay in how we communicate, and an easygoing acceptance of contradiction.
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 17:05:27 +0000
Scholars debate whether the Gospel stories preserve ancient memories or are just Greek literature in disguise. But there’s a reason they won’t stay dead and buried.
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000
The Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning actress discusses four books that examine some of the struggles that come with being a daughter, wife, and mother.
Link: https://www.newyorker.com/books/book-currents/women-who-made-amanda-seyfried-feel-less-alone
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 20:00:00 +0000
If Shulamith Firestone’s last work haunts the feminist movement, it may be because it suggests something disturbing about feminism itself.
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 18:51:29 +0000
Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Link: https://www.newyorker.com/best-books-2025
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 15:00:00 +0000
“Seeking Shelter,” “Dust and Light,” “What You Make of Me,” and “Casualties of Truth.”
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000
The Portuguese director, who made twenty-two features after the age of eighty, rejuvenated the art of movies by linking personal experience to the arc of history.
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 22:48:02 +0000
Loathed even before its release, the latest live-action version of an animated classic embodies many of the cynical moves of the remake racket.
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:43:45 +0000
Alain Guiraudie’s intimate thriller, about sex and death in a rustic village, bends classic tropes into modern forms.
Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/the-hitchcockian-wonders-of-misericordia
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:12:50 +0000
Jessica Palud’s portrait of the actress, who starred, with Marlon Brando, in “Last Tango in Paris,” centers the abuse that Schneider endured on that shoot, and its lifelong aftereffects.
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 14:47:58 +0000
In the eighties, a Punjabi immigrant bought an old Italian restaurant in San Francisco. The dish he pioneered became a phenomenon.
Link: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/31/the-quintessentially-american-story-of-indian-pizza
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000
Our food critic answers a reader’s question about alternatives to the beleaguered chicken egg.
Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-food-scene/helen-help-me-should-i-be-cooking-with-ostrich-eggs
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000
The ne plus ultra of expense-account dining is making a comeback, with help from the indefatigable French chef Daniel Boulud.
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000
During Carnival, the ingenuity of the city’s bakers is on full display.
Link: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/10/a-crowning-moment-for-the-new-orleans-king-cake
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0000
In “Straight Loops, Light & Soul,” a project evoking Roy DeCarava’s Harlem jazz pictures and the music of J Dilla, Williams captures the underground beat-maker scene of New York City.
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000
In “Ludwig,” David Mitchell tries to solve mysteries—and the problem of being a person in the world.
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000
Widowers drive the plots of “Paradise,” “Severance,” and “American Primeval,” to poignant effect.
Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-television/mister-lonely-the-new-tv-hero
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000
The Netflix series, about a thirteen-year-old killer, attempts to grapple with the crisis facing boys today—but its true sympathies lie with the baffled adults around them.
Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-television/the-parental-panic-of-adolescence
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 21:56:22 +0000
In its second season, the show continues to indict the corporate workplace while secretly longing for it.
Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-television/how-severance-makes-a-fetish-of-the-office
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0000
Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal lack direction, and “The Trojans,” a spirited football-themed Iliad, heads for the end zone.
Link: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/07/othello-theatre-review-broadway
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s latest offers another family battle royale, and Andrew Scott dazzles in a one-man tour de force.
Link: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/31/vanya-and-purpose-theatre-review
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000
The minds behind “You Me Bum Bum Train,” which has sparked a ticket frenzy, discuss re-creating real-life scenarios, crafting a show that gives people “epiphanies,” and why they ask participants to sign an N.D.A.
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000
Paul Mescal and Patsy Ferran star in a heavy-handed production of Tennessee Williams’s masterpiece, and a mismatched cast stumbles around Henrik Ibsen’s haunted classic.
Link: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/24/a-streetcar-named-desire-and-ghosts-theatre-review
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000
Yunchan Lim tackles Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and Seong-Jin Cho presents a Ravel marathon.
Link: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/17/yunchan-lim-seong-jin-cho-music-review
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000
The award-winning pianist on the relationship between music and politics—and on five books that hold them in tension.
Link: https://www.newyorker.com/books/book-currents/jeremy-denks-musical-account-of-american-divisions
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2025 21:00:00 +0000
Edmond Dédé’s “Morgiane” shows how diversity initiatives can promote works of real cultural value.
Link: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/03/an-1887-opera-by-a-black-composer-finally-surfaces
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
A new documentary about the band’s early days offers a rich backdrop to an unlikely performance of a star on the rise.
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
Also: The hundred-year-old jazz saxophonist Marshall Allen, Baz Luhrmann’s dramatic new East Village bar, Alice Childress’s “Wine in the Wilderness,” and more.
Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/goings-on/richard-brodys-new-directors-new-films-picks
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000
The Trump Administration’s not-so-classified group chat.
Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2025-04-07
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000
An elderly powerlifter trains for competition, in Cecilia Brown and Winslow Crane-Murdoch’s short documentary.
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 14:19:58 +0000
Who knows who you’ll bump into?
Link: https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/blitts-kvetchbook/sunday-in-the-amusement-park-with-elon
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 20:50:55 +0000
A tale of two schlepps.
Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2025-03-31
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000
The battle for custody of a contested institution.
Link: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/31/no-fault-haley-mlotek-book-review
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000
A future where many humans are in love with bots may not be far off. Should we regard them as training grounds for healthy relationships or as nihilistic traps?
Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/your-ai-lover-will-change-you
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000
The creators of the British miniseries think of the contemporary English boy as a fragile creature, abandoned by society.
Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/critics-notebook/the-flawed-heart-of-adolescence
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000
Also: the audacious Andy Kaufman; Richard Learoyd’s haunting new photography; and the Wooster Group gets wistful.
Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/goings-on/what-to-watch-that-isnt-the-white-lotus
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000
At the end of the twentieth century, Chaim Grade preserved the memory of a Jewish tradition besieged by the forces of modernity.
Link: https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/the-resurrection-of-a-lost-yiddish-novel
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000